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New Characterizations of the Reflexivity in Terms of the Set of Norm Attaining Functionals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Mariá D. Acosta  and
Manuel Ruiz Galán
Mariá D. Acosta
Affiliation:
Departamento de Análisis Matemático Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Granada 18071 Granada Spain, e-mail: dacosta@goliat.ugr.es
Manuel Ruiz Galán
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemática Aplicada E.U. Arquitectura Técnica Universidad de Granada 18071 Granada Spain, e-mail: mruizg@goliat.ugr.es
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As a consequence of results due to Bourgain and Stegall, on a separable Banach space whose unit ball is not dentable, the set of norm attaining functionals has empty interior (in the norm topology). First we show that any Banach space can be renormed to fail this property. Then, our main positive result can be stated as follows: if a separable Banach space $X$ is very smooth or its bidual satisfies the ${{\mathcal{w}}^{*}}$-Mazur intersection property, then either $X$ is reflexive or the set of norm attaining functionals has empty interior, hence the same result holds if $X$ has the Mazur intersection property and so, if the norm of $X$ is Fréchet differentiable. However, we prove that smoothness is not a sufficient condition for the same conclusion.

Keywords

46B0446B1046B20
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , 01 September 1998 , pp. 279 - 289
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1998

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